Hello, my friends, and welcome back once again to The Morning Mindset.

It's time for you and for me to get our minds aligned with the truth of God.

I want to ask you a question.

Do you believe the following statement?

People are more important than things.

Is that something your heart resonates with that in your mind you say, yeah, that's absolutely

important?

I want to challenge you as we listen to what the Apostle Paul teaches us today to examine

your heart to see if your actions have carried out that belief, if that's what you really

believe.

Because so often we can get wrapped up in the typical way of response to people, the typical

way of dealing with situations that we forget such an important principle is that that people

are more important than things.

And in particular, the Apostle Paul is telling us, brothers and sisters in Christ and

their well-being and growth in the faith is much more important than 10 gentle opinions

we might have about what it means to quote unquote, be a good Christian.

And here is a passage that's going to help us kind of think this through.

This is Romans chapter 14, verses 14 to 19.

Paul is continuing on a topic that he brought up way up in verse number one of chapter 14.

We're talking about how we should deal with those who are weaker in the faith.

So imagine a new believer, someone who doesn't know all the Christianes, someone who's

fresh in their faith, they're really an encouraging person to be around if you've ever had

...